RE: [RESEND PATCH v3 1/2] device property: Add function to search for named child of device

From: Opensource [Adam Thomson]
Date: Tue Jun 21 2016 - 07:59:42 EST


21 June 2016 12:42, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> > > +static inline bool acpi_data_node_match(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
> > > + const char *name)
> > > +{
> > > + return is_acpi_data_node(fwnode) ?
> > > + (!strcasecmp(to_acpi_data_node(fwnode)->name, name)) : false;
> > > +}
> >
> > Looks fine to me.
> >
> > One question - is it expected that matching ACPI data nodes is always
> > case insensitive?
>
> That would not be a correct expectation in theory, although I don't think it
> really matters in practice.

From my reading of the Hierarchical Data Extension and ACPI Spec, I thought
that was the case (section 19.3.1 ASL Names - ASL names are not case-sensitive
and will be converted to upper case). Am I misreading the documents/missing
something else?